Children's Speech and Language Therapist (Schools & Clinic Team)

NHS; Salford; On-site; GBP 30,000 - 50,000

Job description

Children's Speech and Language Therapist (Schools & Clinic Team)

Northern Care Alliance NHS Foundation Trust

Salford Children's Speech & Language Therapy Service is looking to recruit a creative and flexible Speech and Language Therapist to work as part of our schools and clinic team.

You will be part of a friendly, experienced department who work closely with families and partner agencies to support children and young people's speech, language and communication needs. We have a well-established service providing a 'balanced system' across Salford delivering universal, targeted and specialist levels of support.

This role will involve delivery of clinical interventions in primary, high schools and clinic and supporting and delivering our training offer to schools, parents/carers, and colleagues. The post holder will receive supervision, support and mentoring from a range of experienced SLTs across the service.

Main duties of the job

• To deliver universal, targeted and specialist clinical work as part of the Speech and Language Therapy School and Clinic Team.
• To assess and diagnose conditions and to plan and implement specialist Speech and Language Therapy programmes of care and treatment and discharge appropriately, using evidence-based practice.
• To work collaboratively with parents, carers and educators and to support children with a range of communication needs.
• To demonstrate clinical effectiveness through the use of evidence-based practice and outcome measures.
• Due to the nature of the post you will need to be able to travel to different sites as required by the service.

About us

The Northern Care Alliance NHS Foundation Trust (NCA) provides hospital and integrated health and social care services to over one million people living across Greater Manchester. Our 20,000 colleagues care for people in hospital and in the community, working across Bury, Rochdale, Oldham and Salford, to save and improve lives.

As a large NHS trust we are committed to enhancing the health of our local population by delivering consistently high standards of care and working closely with local authorities and key partners. We believe in our power and potential to make a difference and we're always looking for people who demonstrate our three core values - care, appreciate and inspire - to join our team.

In return, we can offer you a job role with purpose and flexibility. The size and scale of the NCA means we can provide more challenge and opportunities so your career can always be moving in the right direction. By joining us you can also access a competitive benefits package, including a fantastic annual leave allowance, flexible working opportunities and protected hours for health and wellbeing activities, helping you to achieve more personal downtime and a better work-life balance.

Job responsibilities

To read more information about the advertised role, and the main job duties/responsibilities please open the Job Description and Person Specification located under the supporting documents heading.

Person Specification

Qualifications

• Degree in Speech and Language Therapy (will also consider if expecting degree results imminently)
• Evidence of being able to travel to different sites as required by the service.

Professional registration

• HCPC registration - license to practice
• RCSLT member

Knowledge, training and experience

• Knowledge and demonstrated use of up to date assessment tool relevant to the client group
• Knowledge of a range of appropriate therapeutic interventions (relevant to the client group)
• Awareness of the roles of other professionals
• Evidence of relevant experience at an undergraduate/post graduate level
• Awareness and understanding of supporting equality and valuing diversity within role.
• Knowledge of Augmentative and Alternative forms of Communication e.g. signing, symbols, communication aids

Skills and abilities

• Good planning and organisational skills and caseload management including prioritisation skills
• Demonstrates ability to be a good team member
• Basic IT skills

Disclosure and Barring Service Check

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.

Northern Care Alliance NHS Foundation Trust

Speech and Language Therapist Service Lead